Word: baghdad
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...jets were in the vicinity and told the pilot to turn back toward Ankara. Later Iranian officials also claimed that fragments of a Soviet-built Iraqi air-to-air missile had been retrieved from the wreckage, which was found in mountainous Iranian territory close to the Turkish border. In Baghdad, Iraqi officials said they "categorically denied the Iranian accusation...
...Iranians are poised to strike south toward the last and most important piece of territory still held by the Iraqis. That does not bode well for Saddam Hussein and his Arab allies. His chief military supporter, Jordan's King Hussein, rushed to Baghdad for consultations after the Iranian victory, as did Saudi Defense Minister Prince Sultan. Iranian officials insist that they have no plans to attack Iraq, but they do want compensation for war losses and an unconditional retreat to the previous border along the disputed Shatt al Arab waterway...
...compound Saddam's problems, Iran has set unrealistic conditions for a ceasefire: Baghdad's unconditional withdrawal, payment of massive reparations and unqualified United Nations condemnation of Iraq as the aggressor. In effect, they are a demand for Saddam's political suicide. Efforts to mediate a cease-fire by the U.N. and a council of Islamic states in recent months have met with stubborn opposition in Iran...
...Muammar Gaddafi made it known that he would boycott the session. So did Algeria's Bendjedid Chadli, Marxist South Yemen's Ali Nasser Mohammed and Iraq's Saddam Hussein, who was still smarting from Israel's surprise raid last June on the nuclear reactor in Baghdad. In all, eight top-level Arab leaders failed to go to Fez, including Syria's President Hafez Assad, who sent in his place Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam...
Egypt has sent to Baghdad, via Jordan, some of the obsolete Soviet weapons that it is replacing with American arms. In the midst of the fighting, France delivered to Iraq four Mirage jets that had been ordered before the war broke out. Iran has turned to North Korea and even Israel in search of spare parts and supplies. Many of the deals have been negotiated by shadowy European middlemen who deal in cash commissions, not moral questions...